Clinical Associate Psychologist Older People

4 weeks ago

Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

If you are passionate about supporting the mental health of older people and are interested in working with people of all ages with dementia, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Qualified Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP) to join the Older Persons' Community Service based in Great Yarmouth. If you feel enthusiastic about service user and carer involvement in service development and enjoy delivering psychologically informed individual and group interventions, we would like to hear from you.

Would you like to live in Norfolk? A county of outstanding natural beauty with its beautiful countryside, and unbeatable beaches. Attracting millions of visitors each year, this could be your chance to move here permanently and make a difference to families in our community.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Associate in Psychology, you will alongside the existing Clinical Psychologist and the wider multidisciplinary teams. Your duties could include:The provision of psychological assessment, formulation, individual and group interventions, for older people and people of all ages with a dementia.Working closely with qualified Clinical Psychologists to set up clinical pathways.Undertaking appropriate clinical work under the supervision of a Clinical assessments alongside the clinical psychologists observing older people at home and in care settings, structured information gathering from older people/relatives/carers/care staff including life histories using service participation in multidisciplinary case discussion and formulation meetings.Involvement in development of policies and project workData gathering for audit and research purposes link.Training and an exciting time to join the team as we continue to grow and develop to deliver a high-quality mental health service for older people in the Great Yarmouth area. Your experience, compassion and enthusiasm could be just what we need.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful applicant will join our professional and friendly multidisciplinary team. We are proud to say that our teams high standards of care attract positive feedback from our service users and carers on a weekly basis and Community Older People Teams in our Trust are consistently rated as Good by CQC. Would you like to do a job that makes a difference every day, using your skills, experience, and compassion with older people and people of all ages with dementia? Then join us.

NSFT is passionate about promoting good mental health and is dedicated to the continuing professional development of its staff. Our service consists of a Community Mental Health team (CMHT) and a Memory Assessment and Treatment Service (MATS) which cover the Great Yarmouth area. We also have strong links with our sister Team in Waveney which also consists of a CMHT and MATS service. It is expected that the post holder will be based at Northgate Hospital in Great Yarmouth, although there are likely to be opportunities to work with other Teams within Older people Services.

The team consists of qualified and trainee nurses, psychologist, psychiatrist, administration and assistant practitioner/support workers. The team work collaboratively to support recovery including living well with dementia.

The post holder will need to be confident in completing assessments, running groups and delivering mental health interventions in person. They will also be required to support and work collaboratively with our colleagues within the CMHT and MATs service along with and the other organisations and allied teams in our care group.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY

Some of the benefits you can expect:

NHS pension a comprehensive in house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) staff physio service NHS discounts and many more

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters Clinical Associate in Psychology qualification Registered on the BPS Wider Psychological Workforce register as an Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP)

Experience

Essential

Relevant supervised experience of delivering psychological assessments and interventions in [setting/service user group relevant to their specific scope of practice] Experience of working in a setting with Service Users presenting with moderate to severe mental health difficulties

Personal Qulaities

Essential

Ability to work effectively as part of a team. Awareness of their own competence and expertise and work within those boundaries.

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